A Look at Wedding Sites on WordPress.com on Jan 23, 2013 in CommunityThemesweddingWe’ve launched themes especially for people planning and documenting their weddings, like the elegant themes Forever and Ever After, and the charming, playful Lovebirds and Blissful Blog themes. Here, we’ll take a quick look at how b...

Post Comments Using Twitter and Facebook on Jun 6, 2011 in FeaturesStarting today, visitors to your blog can use their Facebook or Twitter account to leave comments. This saves everyone a few steps and gives visitors control over which identity they use. It’s a win for everyone. As an important touch, we let...

Post Comments Using Twitter and Facebook on Jun 6, 2011 in FeaturesStarting today, visitors to your blog can use their Facebook or Twitter account to leave comments. This saves everyone a few steps and gives visitors control over which identity they use. It’s a win for everyone. As an important touch, we let...

Security Incident on Apr 12, 2011 in securityTough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed. We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determ...

Automattic’s Worldwide WP 5k on Mar 28, 2011 in AutomatticCommunitywwwp5kAs Scott mentioned in his How is WordPress.com Made? post, at Automattic we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and exchanging non-work ideas in addition to making WordPress.com and our other products more awesome...

Not Just A Contact Form on Dec 20, 2010 in Featurescontact-formThe short version of this story is that the contact form on WordPress.com has been upgraded. But that leaves out so many of the juicy details A couple of months ago we took a step back to look at what sort of things the contact form needed and what i...

New Theme: zBench on Oct 26, 2010 in ThemesToday’s new, feature-packed Theme has a really polished design that can give your blog a more technical look—without appearing too cold. I think you’ll really like it. Let’s take a look at zBench. zBench has a lot of great fea...

Making Redirects Permanent on May 25, 2010 in DomainsUpgraderedirectOn WordPress.com, you start with a standard WordPress.com domain name for your blog which looks something like this – example.wordpress.com. You then have the option of upgrading to a custom mapped domain such as example.com. The good news is b...